The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

by William Blake and William Blake Jr

Book Overview

These two collections of Blake's finest and best-loved poems--printed on vellum--offer the text of each poem in letterpress on the page facing a beautiful color reproduction of the design Blake created to illustrate the particular poem.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192811673
• ISBN13: 9780192811677
• Release Date: October 1975
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A must read !! Read it now!

All william blakes works are awesome

Easy to Read

The illuminations accompanying Blake's poetry should be considered necessary to the reading of his poems. The illuminations are beautiful, descriptive, obviously terribly time consuming and should not be counted as something separate from the words. That said, sometimes it is difficult to read the poems on the illuminations, as they were meant to be read. This book provides the complete illuminations followed by the poems sans illumination, for ease of reading. Also, the price is of course outstanding, as illuminated versions of Blake's poetry can get quite pricey.

Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The transaction was great. Everything was as it was supposed to be.

It's not about the bible

The other reviewers are missing the point. Blake did not believe in the Christian ideology enought to want to contradict the bible. He believed that god is a construction of the human imagination, the Poetic Genius (read "All Relgions are One" and "There is no Natural Religion"). To speak in terms of religiosity, he had to use Christian terminology (Ezekial, Isiah, Satan...) because the language of religion was created this way, and Blake was forced to speak in those terms before developing his own language system. The bible contradicts itself; Blake's writing and thinking transcend that superficial level.

The Bible is not the definitive authority on quality.

I fail to see how whether or not this book is contradictory to the bible is any indictation of whether it is good or not.